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	<title>California Media Collaborative</title>
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	<description>Reflections on The Changing California Media Landscape</description>
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		<title>Another California newspaper on the brink..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Add the Orange County Register to the list of  California newspaper fighting for their survival.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the equity owners of the paper will file for bankruptcy protection this week.
Some of the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s most talented journalists left the paper last Friday, including Tyche Hendricks, the paper&#8217;s star immigration reporter.  (Hendricks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/08/another-california-newspaper-on-the-brink.html</link>
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		<title>Unintended Consequences of State Furloughs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor Schwarzenegger&#8217;s plan to impose furloughs on some 200,000 state workers &#8212; three days a month &#8212; at first glance seemed among the most reasonable of the radical budget cuts he proposed for the state.
A few days here, a few days there, imposed on all state workers regardless of what they did, seemed like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/08/unintended-consequences-of-state-furloughs.html</link>
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		<title>California Watch Announces Reporting Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Watch has hired a dynamic team of reporters, multimedia reporters and editors.  For more details, click here. 
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		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/08/california-watch-announces-reporting-team.html</link>
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		<title>The Politics of Prisons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a day, or two, makes. 
On Monday, Pasadena Police Chief  Bernard Melekian, who also is president of the California Police Chiefs Association, said he was adamantly opposed to the Schwarzenegger administration&#8217;s plan to reduce the prison population by 27,000 &#8212; a plan that still threatens the entire budget package agreed to by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/07/the-politics-of-prisons.html</link>
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		<title>The Urgency of Local Reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Alterman, who typically writes a media column for The Nation magazine makes the most compelling case for local and regional reporting I have seen in this article for the Center for American Progress. 
And on his list of notable reports should be the remarkable investigative project on the unconscionable delays in investigating complaints regarding nursing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/07/the-urgency-of-local-reporting.html</link>
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		<title>A New Twist in Non-Profit Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Diego continues to reinforce its status as a leading force in news innovation.
Platinum Equity,  the equity firm that bought the  San Diego Union Tribune last month, is funding an investigative reporting initiative, The Watchdog Institute.   The non-profit inititative will be run by none other than Lori Hearn, who until this week as senior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/07/a-new-twist-in-non-profit-journalism.html</link>
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		<title>Negative Reinforcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It should have been a moment of celebration for whatever gods are still  watching over Sacramento &#8212; and for the flawed mortals who inhabit the place. 
When the State Assembly approved $5 billion in further budget cuts this week, it was one of those rare times that the Republicans and Democrats actually agreed on something.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/06/negative-reinforcement.html</link>
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		<title>Brother, Can You Spare 75 Cents?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I stared at the newspaper racks for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune outside Mama&#8217;s Royal Cafe in Oakland where I had just had breakfast. 
I noticed that they were each charging 75c for their daily editions &#8212; and $2 for their Sunday editions.
That&#8217;s a far cry from the 25c [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/06/brother-can-you-spare-four-quarters.html</link>
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		<title>Let them mow grass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Schwarzenegger, once a master of media sophistication (or manipulation, depending on your point of view), seems to be losing his touch.
His biggest talking point these days is that the current budget crisis in California presents all kinds of opportunities to do things better than they have been in the past.
What kinds of opportunities, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/06/let-them-mow-grass.html</link>
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		<title>News Innovation Thrives in San Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to journalism innovation, San Diego may have every other city in the United States beat.
It&#8217;s here that new journalism experiments are popping up.    For now, it has two of the liveliest online news engines &#8212; in effect competing against each other and the  San Diego Union Tribune, recently sold and dramatically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://californiamedia.org/2009/06/news-innovation-thrives-in-san-diego.html</link>
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